Hollis Woods’s search for a family is a perpetual journey, as she moves from one foster home to another until she meets the Regan family and two rather quirky elderly women who teach her a lot about love, friendship, and belonging.
... Hollis Woods by Patricia
Hollis Woods was an infant when she was abandoned and for 12 years she has been transferred from one foster home to another. To the social agency, she is a “mountain of trouble” because she skips school and runs away, even from the Regans, a family willing to give her a real home. When she is placed with Josie, an elderly artist who is becoming very forgetful, Hollis begins to feel needed and doesn’t ever want to leave this eccentric old woman who knows a lot about friendship and love. Fearful that the social agency will take her from Josie, Hollis plans a winter escape. This time she takes Josie with her and returns to Branches, the summer home that belongs to the Regans. All along, Hollis longs for her life with the Regans, and records every special moment with them in a gallery of pictures.
Discussion Question: (Remember to post your name first, then your response!)
There is a saying "a picture is worth a thousand words."What do you think this means? Do you think this is true?
Kimberly. I think that a picture is worth a thousand words means that you have a lot of thoughts too one picture. For example, when you look at a interesting picture you have a lot of things to say about it. This is true because you can just look at a picture and have a lot of questions or thoughts about it. For example, you can look at the cover of Hollis Woods cover I have to ask a lot of questions. As in, why is it only part of her body in the picture? These are the reasons I think that this saying is true. Ms. Dooley Kimberly, I like your ideas about how one picture can create a lot of ideas and things to talk acbout. Do you think Hollis draws her own pictures to express what she is feeling? Dylan.Yes becuase Hollis is lonley so that is her way of explaing her emotions. For example, at the beggining of the story Hollis was drawing a picture of the old man, Izzy, and Steven. Hollis was leaving the three of them so she wanted to always rememder the moment by drawing a picture of them. Mrs. Dooley-Dylan I like the emotion "lonely" you used to describe Hollis. Can you tell me more about what she drew in her picture to support your idea that she was lonely?
Hollis Woods’s search for a family is a perpetual journey, as she moves from one foster home to another until she meets the Regan family and two rather quirky elderly women who teach her a lot about love, friendship, and belonging.
Hollis Woods was an infant when she was abandoned and for 12 years she has been transferred from one foster home to another. To the social agency, she is a “mountain of trouble” because she skips school and runs away, even from the Regans, a family willing to give her a real home. When she is placed with Josie, an elderly artist who is becoming very forgetful, Hollis begins to feel needed and doesn’t ever want to leave this eccentric old woman who knows a lot about friendship and love. Fearful that the social agency will take her from Josie, Hollis plans a winter escape. This time she takes Josie with her and returns to Branches, the summer home that belongs to the Regans. All along, Hollis longs for her life with the Regans, and records every special moment with them in a gallery of pictures.
Discussion Question: (Remember to post your name first, then your response!)
Kimberly. I think that a picture is worth a thousand words means that you have a lot of thoughts too one picture. For example, when you look at a interesting picture you have a lot of things to say about it. This is true because you can just look at a picture and have a lot of questions or thoughts about it. For example, you can look at the cover of Hollis Woods cover I have to ask a lot of questions. As in, why is it only part of her body in the picture? These are the reasons I think that this saying is true.
Ms. Dooley Kimberly, I like your ideas about how one picture can create a lot of ideas and things to talk acbout. Do you think Hollis draws her own pictures to express what she is feeling?
Dylan.Yes becuase Hollis is lonley so that is her way of explaing her emotions. For example, at the beggining of the story Hollis was drawing a picture of the old man, Izzy, and Steven. Hollis was leaving the three of them so she wanted to always rememder the moment by drawing a picture of them.
Mrs. Dooley-Dylan I like the emotion "lonely" you used to describe Hollis. Can you tell me more about what she drew in her picture to support your idea that she was lonely?